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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
Well, actually... (physics major, remember!  )
Given that the earth is actually only 24,901 miles around, the equator is moving at just over 1037.5 miles per hour.
At 41.6 degrees latitude, you've moving at 74.77980905% of that - or 775.87 mph, just around the center of the earth. So you're moving that fast, sometimes WITH the 66486 mph, sometimes against. Like the car at the end of the spinning arm of the Octupus ride.
If that's not enough, the sun is moving around the galaxy at 514495mph., with our revolutions and rotations sometimes adding, sometimes subtracting.
NOW you need dramamine. |
Right when I just finished polishing off a newly perceived personal understanding of False Double Fouls, False Multiple Fouls, and what "...one of the attributes of...
" means, I read this . . .
. . . and my head EXPLODED.
Now I've gotta recover to do a tough game tonight.